Hot Topics at the Conference

Location Intelligence 2007 will discuss the key issues affecting the location technology industry as it moves from the early adopter stage into a mainstream information technology sector. Below are just a few of the issues that will be featured. Is there something else we need to cover? Send us your ideas at info@LocationIntelligence.net.

• From mashups to money
  Taking entrepreneurial location technology ideas to the next level: Building a viable, profitable business
• Pricing models of mobile location services
• Pricing models of online Web services, data services and consumer services (Frapper; MotionBased), etc.
• The art of geospatial war in business
• Web services
• The sensor Web
• Open source geospatial technology
  – Business opportunities for open source geospatial technology and services
  – Interoperability and open source technology
• Emerging technology issues
  GeoRSS, Interoperablity, RFID, Privacy
• Remote sensing, imagery and image mapping
  New platforms, uses and applications
• Real time dynamic data
• Vertical industry perspectives
  – Location intelligence in retail analysis
  – Location Intelligence in financial risk models
  – Fleet management and mobile assets
  – Risk mitigation: insurance and homeland security
  – Geointelligence in forward deployed military operations
  – Government as a geospatially enabled enterprise
  – Real estate information applications
• Business intelligence meets location technology
• Spatial databases: How much goes into the database?
• The ROI of location intelligent solutions
• Why should venture capitalists care about location intelligence?
• Location enabling the consumer
• Indoor location determination and applications
• Location servers - white labeling the Web world with location-based applications
• Geospatial patents
• Curriculums for business school and location intelligence